Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, read more

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their read more

Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.

I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the
consequence, and pains to be coveted that read more

I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the
consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater
pleasures.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

A peaceful mind generates power.

A peaceful mind generates power.

Two great things you can give your children: one is
roots, the other is wings.

Two great things you can give your children: one is
roots, the other is wings.

Don't wait for someone to take you under their wing. Find a good wing and climb up underneath it.

Don't wait for someone to take you under their wing. Find a good wing and climb up underneath it.